E-grāmata: One Country, Two Systems In Crisis: Hong Kong's Transformation since the Handover

In taking control of Hong Kong from the British in the 1990s, the Chinese agreed to a principal of "One Country, Two Systems." With his contributors largely in agreement, Wong (politics and sociology, Lingnan U., Hong Kong, China) argues that whenever the "one country" was in conflict with the "two systems," it was the "one country" that took priority. He presents nine essays that look at this process in the areas of political and legal changes, state-society relationships, and relationships with the outside world. Specific topics include the changing nature of the application of the rule of law, Catholic Church relations with the government, the role of Honk Kong in Sino-American relations, and Honk Kong-Taiwan ties in the context of the cross-Straits conflict. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

"One Country, Two Systems" in Crisis elucidates how China's intervention in Hong Kong after the British handover in 1984 has curtailed Hong Kong's civil liberties; how freedom of speech is at the mercy of the government; and how deception has turned the "Pearl of the Orient" into the rubber stamp of the Chinese Communist Party.